What is your best memory with your T?

Discuss all things Model T related.
Forum rules
If you need help logging in, or have question about how something works, use the Support forum located here Support Forum
Complete set of Forum Rules Forum Rules

Topic author
FieldMarshalRed
Posts: 23
Joined: Mon Aug 31, 2020 3:32 pm
First Name: Randy
Last Name: Tran
* REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: None
Location: Westminster,CA
MTFCA Number: 51174
Board Member Since: 2020

What is your best memory with your T?

Post by FieldMarshalRed » Wed Nov 18, 2020 9:40 pm

To any Model T owner on this forum:

What is the best memory you have had with your beloved Model T? The most cherished, memorable, and notable moments with your T. If any have pictures you want to share, you are more than welcome to do so.

User avatar

Steve Jelf
Posts: 6463
Joined: Fri Jan 04, 2019 9:37 pm
First Name: Steve
Last Name: Jelf
* REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1923 touring and a few projects
Location: Parkerfield, Kansas
MTFCA Number: 16175
MTFCI Number: 14758
Board Member Since: 2007
Contact:

Re: What is your best memory with your T?

Post by Steve Jelf » Wed Nov 18, 2020 11:07 pm

My best moments have been three or four weeks long. Two drives to Detroit and back.

IMG_3686 copy.JPG
IMG_7389 copy.JPG
Any after-dinner drive on a summer evening is good too.
The inevitable often happens.
1915 Runabout
1923 Touring


jiminbartow
Posts: 2202
Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 10:55 pm
First Name: James
Last Name: Patrick
* REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1926 Coupe
Location: Bartow, FL
MTFCA Number: 50126
Board Member Since: 2001

Re: What is your best memory with your T?

Post by jiminbartow » Thu Nov 19, 2020 1:50 am

My grandpa was born in 1897, was married in 1919 when he got home from the Great War and from 1920 to 1928 had six kids, just in time for the Great Depression. He once said the times were so hard trying to support a family of eight, he would not relive those times for any amount of money.

In 1970, when at 16, I bought my 1926 Model T Coupe and was restoring it, Grandpa was very interested, for he had a Model T in his youth in Georgia and even told me of the time he suffered a broken arm when cranking it. Two years later, in 1972, I completed the restoration on my T and for my first drive, drove fifty miles from my home in Brandon, Florida, to Lakeland, where Grandpa lived. By then, he was 75, weak and bedridden from lung cancer due to having had a lung removed the year before. When I drove up, Grandpa got up out of bed, got dressed and came outside for his first and last ride in my Model T. I shut it off just so I could crank it from the front. He loved watching me crank it and listened intently at the buzz of the four coils. When it roared to life he laughed and clapped and continued to Leigh and smiled as we drove along. For that short drive, he was happy and young again. I asked him. If he wanted to drive it, but he said he’d better not. Just to experience a ride in a Model T, once again, with its’ unique sights, sounds and smells, was enough for him. A month later, in November, 1972, I left for Marine Corps boot camp. Grandpa died in August, 1973 and I’m grateful I was able to complete the restoration and keep my promise to Grandpa to give him a ride in my T. Jim Patrick
Last edited by jiminbartow on Thu Nov 19, 2020 4:28 pm, edited 1 time in total.


Burger in Spokane
Posts: 2251
Joined: Sat Mar 09, 2019 2:05 am
First Name: Brent
Last Name: Burger
* REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1926 TT closed cab flatbed
Location: Spokane, Wa.
Board Member Since: 2014

Re: What is your best memory with your T?

Post by Burger in Spokane » Thu Nov 19, 2020 2:16 am

My biggest thrill around old things is seeing them still doing what they
were meant to do, in a genuine, not staged or contrived way. I use my
TT that way, and my best memories are those where others have that same
reaction to seeing it just doing what it was made to do, whether that is
just going down the road with a load, piling it up with lumber, or hauling
firewood. The smiles it puts on peoples' faces is the best thing about owning
an old vehicle. And then there are the kids ! Some kids are destined to be
rust and grease nerds. And they really get revved up over the old truck. So,
the answer isn't a single event. It is a recurring event of bringing a certain
happiness to others. The owning and driving it is just a bonus.

fullsizeoutput_55c.jpeg
DSC05715.JPG
IMG_1414.JPG
DSC05714.JPG
DSC05300.JPG
More people are doing it today than ever before !


tom_strickling
Posts: 388
Joined: Tue Jan 08, 2019 10:31 am
First Name: Tom
Last Name: Strickling
* REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 11 Torpedo, 18 Touring, 21 TT Huckster, 24 snowmpbile Staude and Shaw tractor conversions, Model T powered sickel bar mower
Location: New Philadelphia Ohio

Re: What is your best memory with your T?

Post by tom_strickling » Thu Nov 19, 2020 7:46 am

The 2008 parade in Richmond Inidana during the centennial tour. HUNDREDS of people of all ages came out to see hundreds of Model Ts drive by. It made so many people, including us, so very happy. I think I will always remember that day.
“The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.” – Abe Lemons.


MWalker
Posts: 474
Joined: Fri Jan 04, 2019 9:49 am
First Name: Mike
Last Name: Walker
* REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1916 Roadster Pickup
Location: NW Arkansas
MTFCA Number: 314
MTFCA Life Member: YES

Re: What is your best memory with your T?

Post by MWalker » Thu Nov 19, 2020 8:15 am

My most memorable experience with my T ('15 Touring) was driving from home (Fayetteville, AR) to Richmond and back for the Centennial in '08. It took me 4 days going and 3 days coming back. On the last day going, I met up with other members from our Model T club and drove with them. Other than that, it was just me and my car. Driving up there, touring around Richmond for the week, and driving home totalled about 1,800 miles. Good times.


Jerry VanOoteghem
Posts: 2948
Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 4:06 pm
First Name: Jerry
Last Name: Van
Location: S.E. Michigan
MTFCA Number: 24868

Re: What is your best memory with your T?

Post by Jerry VanOoteghem » Thu Nov 19, 2020 8:34 am

Lots of great memories. The most recent was using my Grandfather's '26 Fordor and my dad's '25 Touring in my wedding. My mom & dad used the touring in their wedding, in 1950, and I used it in mine, in 2017.

The Touring has been there for some of the best, and worst, times of my life. :) :(

User avatar

George House
Posts: 2270
Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 5:25 pm
First Name: George
Last Name: House
* REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: ‘10 Maxwell AA, ‘11Hupp Model 20, Two 1914 Ford runabouts, 19 centerdoor, 25 C Cab,26 roadster
Location: Northern Caldwell County TX
MTFCA Number: 115
MTFCA Life Member: YES
Board Member Since: 1999

Re: What is your best memory with your T?

Post by George House » Thu Nov 19, 2020 8:42 am

That’ll easily be descending Pikes Peak in the 1976 VMCCA Glidden Tour. I was in the 1923 Ford touring that I kept from 1966 ( first T) until 2016. Had a Ruckstell and was very concerned about it coming out of low because I only had lined internal emergency brake shoes. The 17 miles downhill with retarded spark and gas took nearly an hour. White knuckles on the steering wheel but most memorable 😁
I don’t know why I turned out this way. My parents were decent people 🤪


John Dow
Posts: 177
Joined: Tue Jan 29, 2019 10:21 am
First Name: John
Last Name: Dow
* REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1923 Touring
Location: Leawood, Ks
MTFCA Number: 32344
Board Member Since: 2015

Re: What is your best memory with your T?

Post by John Dow » Thu Nov 19, 2020 10:05 am

HOWDY FOLKS (1).jpg
Anytime I show my T at a local car show I can count on my best little buddy to be there to greet the folks. That's Rosemary, my granddaughter at 3 years old.


dmdeaton
Posts: 730
Joined: Mon Oct 21, 2019 9:43 pm
First Name: Danny
Last Name: Deaton
Location: Ohio

Re: What is your best memory with your T?

Post by dmdeaton » Thu Nov 19, 2020 10:57 am

Collecting parts for my 2 projects I am building and raising cane with Hank for getting me into this hobby. So far I have never driven one and building 2 at the same time
LOL 😂


HPetrino
Posts: 490
Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 11:14 am
First Name: Henry
Last Name: Petrino
* REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1918 TT
Location: Modesto, CA

Re: What is your best memory with your T?

Post by HPetrino » Thu Nov 19, 2020 11:22 am

When I was 10 or 11 years old my grandfather put me in the drivers seat of the TT, set the brake lever at "neutral" and told be to push down on the pedal when he said to. We were picking up full fruit boxes that were in stacks in the orchard. Grandpa and my older cousin (who was big enough to lift the boxes) would load, then it was my job to move the truck forward to the next stack. The first time I was told to "Go" I killed it. Boy, if looks could kill someone else would be telling this story. :lol:

A photo taken about the same time ca 1957, Grandpa on the truck and my cousin handing him a box of fruit.
IMG_20180829_0011.jpg
IMG_20180829_0011.jpg (55.85 KiB) Viewed 2596 times

User avatar

John Warren
Posts: 1069
Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 12:18 pm
First Name: John
Last Name: Warren
* REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 14 Roadster, 25 Pickup , 26 Canadian Touring , and a 24-28 TA race car
Location: Henderson, Nevada

Re: What is your best memory with your T?

Post by John Warren » Fri Nov 20, 2020 11:02 am

Spending time with my granddaughter and my father, ( Dad,chauffeuring a 100 year old veteran in parade).
i phone 5-5-16 218.jpg
.
i phone 5-5-16 367.jpg
24-28 TA race car, 26 Canadian touring, 25 Roadster pickup, 14 Roadster, and 11AB Maxwell runabout
Keep it simple and keep a good junk pile if you want to invent something :P

User avatar

Rich Eagle
Posts: 6789
Joined: Fri Jan 04, 2019 10:51 am
First Name: Richard
Last Name: Eagle
* REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1909 TR 1914 TR 1915 Rd 1920 Spdstr 1922 Coupe 1925 Tudor
Location: Idaho Falls, ID
MTFCA Number: 1219
Contact:

Re: What is your best memory with your T?

Post by Rich Eagle » Fri Nov 20, 2020 4:38 pm

It's hard to pick a best memory after 56 years of Model 'T'ing.
One of my favorite was the 2010 trip to Glacier with my wife and 2 1/2 year old Granddaughter. We made a half seat for the back so the car seat could sit lower. She had Joy all to herself back there for 11 days. 3 days each way and the tour. We logged 70 hours driving and 1100 miles that trip. It was a delightful trip. We stopped at playgrounds once or twice a day to let her burn off energy. We traveled by ourselves with no spare tire but had no real problems. The traffic on Montana secondary roads was scarce until we got to Kalispell.
Glac2.jpg
Glac1.jpg
Glacr3.jpg
That was our second MTFCA tour. I wish they were closer.
When did I do that?


Norman Kling
Posts: 4068
Joined: Tue Jan 08, 2019 1:39 pm
First Name: Norman
Last Name: Kling
Location: Alpine California

Re: What is your best memory with your T?

Post by Norman Kling » Fri Nov 20, 2020 5:17 pm

In 2010 we took this car to Yosemite. Our son and grandson met us there and Jake our grandson was very eager to drive it. We went to Glacier Point. Now Jake is old enough to drive the T.
Norm
Jake at wheel.jpg


Jim Eubanks
Posts: 197
Joined: Mon Jan 07, 2019 6:04 pm
First Name: Jim
Last Name: Eubanks
* REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1926 touring, 1927 cpe
Location: Powell, TN
MTFCA Number: 49847
MTFCI Number: 8340

Re: What is your best memory with your T?

Post by Jim Eubanks » Fri Nov 20, 2020 5:23 pm

I have had lots of great times in T's, every tour over the years has been special and it all started in 1959 when I got my first T and my dad taught me to drive it in the cow pasture herding cows. I can still hear him nudging me and shouting push the spark up on hills.

User avatar

Will_Vanderburg
Posts: 811
Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 3:59 pm
First Name: William
Last Name: Vanderburg
* REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 2
Location: Jackson, NJ
MTFCA Number: 28382

Re: What is your best memory with your T?

Post by Will_Vanderburg » Fri Nov 20, 2020 5:24 pm

This is mine: The boy is taller than I am now. In the first picture, he is 7. The second picture, he is 17

Jay and Me.jpg
Attachments
centerdoorwheels3.jpg
William L Vanderburg

1925 Touring
1922 Center Door Sedan

User avatar

TWrenn
Posts: 3388
Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 10:53 am
First Name: Tim
Last Name: Wrenn
* REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: '13 Touring, '26 "Overlap" Fordor
Location: Ohio
MTFCA Number: 30701
MTFCI Number: 24033
Board Member Since: 2019

Re: What is your best memory with your T?

Post by TWrenn » Fri Nov 20, 2020 7:37 pm

EVERY time I go out in the T is my best time. 'Cause I never know if it'll be MY LAST.
Attachments
On the Fingerlakes Tour
On the Fingerlakes Tour

Post Reply Previous topicNext topic